The POWER of Goal Achieving Consistency

I have an important question for you, and I mean it seriously: Do you truly want to achieve your goals? If you’re saying “yes,” then let me ask one more question: Do you work consistently on making your goals reality?

I’ve found that one of the most essential elements in goal achieving is consistency – making consistent time to work on your most important goal-achieving activities. Dictionary.com defines consistency as: steadfast adherence to the same principles, course, etc.

Coaching clients often ask how they can stay consistent and focused when the reality of living a goal is so far in the future or the obstacles seem too great? Ongoing goal achieving consistency comes from tapping into your inner motivators and learning to use your time wisely. Here are a few suggestions:

1. Have a clearly defined “why” for wanting to achieve your goal. Your motivation or inner “why” for wanting to make a goal reality needs to be both emotionally strong and personally compelling. See your goal clearly in your mind’s eye. A goal should be motivating in mind, body, and spirit.

2. Make an emotional and physical commitment to making your goal reality. Your inner motivation to goal achieving success must be so strong that you will not allow yourself to give up before your goal becomes reality. Your emotional and physical commitment comes from both your heart and head. In order to stay the course and not give up, your commitment to achieving a goal must be deep and strong.

3. Chunk out quality goal-achieving time. I’ve learned over the years that a vital element in goal achieving is making quality time to regularly work the day-to-day activities that will create ongoing goal achieving momentum. Chunking out consistent time to work on goals can make the difference between success and disappointment. It is up to you to find and chunk out time for consistently working toward achieving your goal.

After reading this post, let me ask you this: How do you define consistency, especially as it relates to goal achieving? And, how important do you believe consistency is to goal achieving?

Here’s my challenge for you:
* Make time this week to sit and decide what you’d like to achieve in the next six months.
* Write that goal on paper – in your handwriting.
* Decide how much time you can devote to making this goal reality.
* Write a plan for achieving your goal.
* Write out in detail how achieving this goal will change your life for the positive.

Are you ready to take me up on my challenge?

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What’s New and Happening – Video

What’s happening on Sharon Michaels Author…

Recorded this on Facebook this morning and wanted to share:

Here are links to all the books and sites I mentioned in the video:

Witch’s Creek Box Set:
Amazon U.S. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VF4SZ2B
Amazon Universal Link: https://mybook.to/WitchsCreekBoxSet

Oscar the Doxie Detective Series:
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Amazon Universal Link: https://mybook.to/OscartheDoxieSeries

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Making Our Own Luck

I’d like to share a fictional story about finding pennies. It’s really a story of optimism and belief in the ability to create your own opportunities for abundance and wealth, no matter the economy. It’s also the story of a woman who knows how to make her own luck.

The town of Graysville was, for the most part, an unhappy town. Many of its citizens were out of work and money was scarce. No matter the economic climate there was one woman in this town who was never without wealth. She was also a happy optimistic woman. Each day as she walked down the streets of Graysville on her way to work or shopping, the townsfolk could hear her humming and singing softly to herself.

The good citizens of Graysville called her the luckiest women in town. Why? Because everywhere this lucky woman went she discovered pennies. She found them on the sidewalk, in the bushes, on the shop floors, in the halls and even laying on the old park benches. Grayville’s lucky woman had a name for her pennies – she called them her pennies from heaven.

Don’t think this lucky woman walked around town with her head bowed down in search of pennies because she didn’t. It was almost as if she were attracted to these pennies and the pennies to her. Day after day there they were, right at her feet and all she had to do was bend down and place them in her pocket. She was indeed a lucky woman!

Over the years its been said this lucky woman has found thousands and thousands of pennies from heaven. When asked about her tremendous luck she would smile and answer, “I expect to find them. You see, I’m not really lucky. I’m just very optimistic that abundance and wealth surround me so I keep my eyes open. Maybe even more importantly, I’m willing to bend down and pick them up.”

To most of us this is a wonderful story about a woman who seems lucky. In reality this tale has nothing to do with luck. It’s about discovering that pennies from heaven have everything to do with optimism and belief in your own ability to create unlimited abundance and wealth.

What are pennies from heaven? They are the unexpected signs of good luck and abundance you find each time you bend down to pick up a newly discovered penny. That “lucky” penny is your gift from the universe. It’s a symbol that unlimited abundance and wealth constantly surround you.

Moral of the Lucky Woman Story: Your own pennies from heaven are right in front of you if you’re willing to bend down and pick them up.

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Are Goals Really Necessary

Before I got serious about succeeding in my business and my life, I didn’t believe in goal setting. Maybe believe isn’t the right word. Quite frankly I didn’t know about setting goals. No one taught me or showed how to set a goal or why setting a goal was important.

Here’s what I remember growing up:
1. I was told where to be and at what time. Example: School bus stop, dinner table, ballet lessons, etc.

2. I was told what needed to be done and by when and it was expected to be done.

3. All during school I was told what I had to do to get a passing grade and it was expected to be completed or I failed.

I wasn’t taught to make goals, I was taught to follow directions. Can you relate?

I’m not blaming parents, teachers or society – it was what was. When I finished college and went on job interviews and the interviewer asked me what my goals were for the next five years, I’m sure I looked like a deer in the headlights. I probably answered something like, “I want to get this job.”

That is the past. Everything changed when I started reading classic books like Think and Grow Rich, The Magic of Thinking Big, The Magic of Believing, etc. I began to understand the power of knowing what I wanted, making time to write it down, seeing it become reality in my mind and then forming a realistic plan of action to achieve it.

This new mindset was a leap of faith for me. A part of me didn’t understand how just writing something down could make achieving it easier? Didn’t it take “hard work” and a lot of luck?

Here’s what I discovered and maybe this will help you understand why I am a BIG believer in setting goals:

1. Making time to write out my goal helped me organize my hopes, dreams and plans for the future. Writing what I wanted down on paper took it from a daydream to a possibility.

2. When I wrote my goal, I started to see it becoming a reality in my mind. I felt hopeful and excited about the future. It gave me a purpose.

3. Knowing what I wanted helped me formulate a plan of action – a step-by-step blueprint for working to make this goal reality.

4. I didn’t always know how I was going to make my goal reality, but I believed without a doubt it would become reality. It was that unwavering belief and commitment to wanting to achieve my goal that kept me going forward even when the going got tough. Yes there were set backs and disappointments, but seeing myself living out my goal kept me going forward.

5. I surrounded myself with motivation. I created Vision Boards, placed motivational sayings around my work area, read inspirational books, affirmed success daily and developed a network of like-minded positive people who were also going for their goals.

6. I learned how to use my time wisely. I focused on those activities that would take me one step closer to my goals. I was focused on success.

7. I asked my friends and family to support me emotionally on my goal journey. I basically said, “If you cannot say anything positive about what I am doing, please don’t say anything at all.”

My mindset and lifestyle didn’t change overnight. It was an ongoing process to reprogram my belief system from being told what to do, to taking responsibility for telling myself what to do.

Honestly, I believe goals aren’t just necessary for success – they are vital for success.
* Goals help us focus on going forward in positive productive ways.
* Goals give us hope for the future.
* Goals give us a path from where we are now to where we want to be in the days, months and years to come.

I believe in goal setting so much I wrote a hands-on how to book/workbook – 21 Days to Living Your Dreams: A step-by-step hands-on approach to achieving your goals and living the life of your dreams. It is available as Paperback and Kindle on Amazon.com – here’s a link:

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No More Goodbyes – New Release!

Later in life short read clean romance

I like writing and reading romances about situations and people I can relate to and respect.
I like “real” emotions, plot twists and turns, and satisfying endings.
The men are mature, strong, and considerate.
The women are smart, independent, and thoughtful.
The main characters find that special someone with whom they will enjoy the next chapter of their lives.

If that sounds like your type of romance reading, then you’ll enjoy No More Goodbyes.